Dorothy, there’s a magical place you can go where you are allowed to play video games on a dinosaur with no pants on. The price of admission is just some Nachitos.
Also, I’m dead set on someone walking into that room and misreading the situation. If it’s going to be Lucy then it would be even funnier if Dorothy were there because Walky would be having a No Pants Party with TWO of his exes. But Dorothy’s presence also unlocks the equally funny Becky option, because then Becky gets to find her girlfriend pantsless with both her rival and a boy. And that’s not even counting the hilarious possibilities if Joyce joins in.
You know what? The more the merrier. No Pants Party at Amber and Dina’s, entire cast!
They just get joined by every cast member, on at a time, and there’s just a pile of pants at the foot of the dinosaur. Walky is the only one not in his undies.
Oofff yeah I’m second-hand embarrassed that you would confuse my poorly executed immature DOA fansmut with Yoto’s way better made immature DOA fansmut. However as it turns out i have drawn something along those lines a few days ago
These are excellent. Keep it up milu. Ya got skills.
milu
Listen, i want be polite and say thank you but also i saw your reply in the rss feed and somehow forgot about this post and thought you’d just warmly validated my ridiculous puns thread downpage and i have to admit
Funny if it’s not the regular cast. Joice walks and finds Arnold, Ryu (or Guile or Bison, whatever, something from Street Fighter) Asma, Other Rachel and Beef without pants.
Jeez, what would you do with all that time? I suppose you could blast it all away doomscrolling or watching videos, maybe reading books or playing video games, but in the absence of all that? I get bored in at most an hour, and that’s *after* deliberate training.
Year 6 here. Not really feeling like I’ve made any headway. On the other hand, between covid and rising fascism, the world is crashing down around me, so I don’t have as far to go, to stand back up as a decent person again.
I took a Mental Health Year (minus about two months) in the middle of college. I was feeling really refreshed and ready for a new start after it was over.
Unfortunately for my sorry ass, the semester immediately following my Mental Health Year was Spring 2020.
Mine was 2003-. I noticed things were not working right after the wreck and my normal outlet of writing poetry about the situation wasn’t working either, that’s when I discovered I had a TBI from when I got killed, which was a fact that I also didn’t find out at the time, both the getting killed and the TBI. I didn’t get my blog up and running until 2008, so no outlets for like 7 years from the wreck until I started doing the blog.
that was 2016 for me. had a minor breakdown at the end of 2015 and had major panic attacks forcing me to drop out of my studies cue depression and insomnia leading to most of 2016 involving doing very little apart from therapy working on myself and building new friendships through my local board game store, this did eventually lead me to the job i am in now though which i love, so everything works out i guess?
best to take naps while you can. too bad ppl can’t nap during work. well, maybe if you have a ‘cushy’ job where you get an hour break but unless you can fall asleep instantly and wake up ten mins before it ends idk how much it’d help
(I hear japan and other places have a break room with beds but that’s technically a negative thing if you’re literally sleeping at work and not abl e to go hoem lol)
Yeah, I’ve tried this experiment, repeatedly and at length, where I sleep a ton, with practically zero responsibilities, for weeks.
Because, I always feel overwhelmed, so I imagine that a few open-ended weeks of nothingness ought to address that problem / help relieve the overwhelm, right?
Unfortunately, though, it’s a situation where depression totally *thrives*. Depression is never sated, it’ll only get more intense if I give it 24/7 nothingness to eat.
The experiment has been conclusive for me. I always think it’ll help, it seems like it’ll be such a relief… but it’s a trap.
I had to keep setting my alarm, had to keep having some responsibilities that keep me in the world.
If I’ve got those, though, naps are indeed very very nice.
I have sleep apnea, which I’m glad to have diagnosed now and therefore be able to use a CPAP for higher quality sleep, but it does make the act of sleeping feel like more of a hassle, even though I enjoy it. Can’t just get comfortable and doze. But then if I do fall asleep without my CPAP, like if I end up napping while reading or something, it doesn’t feel very refreshing (probably because of all the not-breathing).
Oh no. This is really bad. This is how you get behind, followed by sudden overwhelming paralyzing panic, and then you end up doing nothing forever and have to take a semester off and it haunts you for years and years and then we don’t get to see Dorothy anymore and like her even though she reminds me of my most dire flaws.
Well since everyone else is getting deja vu of their college years from this, I might as well share my story for comfort.
I was a physics major at my University for two years until I had to recently quit because of mental health, disability and pandemic circumstances.
Awe well, at least coding games ain’t too bad. It ain’t a rocket, but at least I can eventually build Dorothy a sapphic dream world with what’s essentially Legos for grown-ups.
I am really sorry you went through that – it sounds utterly soul crushing. However, I am glad you where able to find hope and joy in your current path. You know a lot of wise (or at least old and seemingly pretty successful and happy) people I’ve talked to lately keep telling me that the universe is far far to complicated to see how every path pans out in 20 minutes much less in a decade or more, its about taking the path that feels right for you at the moment and being there. My mom says the universe sometimes closes doors so you can find a better one later (that sounds a little mumbo jumbo for me, but it brings her peace to her and myself when I can believe it).
Besides, have you ever heard of Brian May? Dude was on the path of the physicist, but then while prepping for his doctorate turned down what seems to have been a prestigious gap job so he could be keep being in a band only for that band to break up shortly after. He then formed Queen, dropped out of his doctorate half way through to go be a rock star. In 2007 in finished his degree and just recently helped NASA pull off the mission that brought back samples from an asteroid. Point is life leads you all sorts of weird places and strange curve balls doesn’t mean you won’t eventually get where you want and you frankly might be a lot more interesting when you get there. I don’t know if any of this helps, but I hope you have a good day/night/morning?
I realize much akin to Dotty, my original goal was based on over-idealized conceptions of a profession over-simplified for grade-schoolers. Not to say that, akin to Dina, I wanna make science my way of life, I just think there’s a better path to it.
I always wanted to make hover-boards, light-sabers, video games, candy machines, sugar, tea and rum. Cool things that make people happy. PHD or not, that what my life about. ?
On that note, I find my 2 years of physics classes come in real handy for a lot of game coding :3 😉
clif
What you’re describing is an engineer, not a scientist. An engineer designs and makes things. A scientist wants to understand the way the way the world works.
Yeah I know, I chose physics with the intention of eventually getting an engineering degree, and because physicists often work alongside engineers in large projects.
But yeah, I ain’t cut out to seriously compete in that field, it turns out. Making games and learning science on my own is a lot less stressful.
milu
re: Brian May’s story (which is pretty cool and thank you) i think it was the self-help writer Mark Manson who takes kind of the reverse of your example and talks about the first drummer for the Beatles who quit after 6 months before they rose to stardom and never became part of the phenomenon and stayed in the shadows playing small bands all his life and how when asked about it, would be like “yeah, that’s wild, but i mean… my life is good. i’m really happy with it.”
milu
disclaimer i don’t remember the details and for all i know the story is apocryphal or simplified beyond the point of being a lie, so i’m not definitely endorsing it. i think the experience it describes is probably true of someone somewhere though and that’s good enough for me =)
I mean she is aware that she needed to take a mental health day yes that’s on Saturday and also on Sunday but that’s alot more progress many folks would take
Takin an edible and watching my favorite YouTubers scream their pants off from playing a horror game? Now that’s a great possibility for me.
Doctor_Who
I watch horror whenever I’m feeling lousy. Great for sick days and mental health days.
I think it’s just nice to see that someone in some universe is having a worse day than me. I may be 40% conscious on the couch with mucous coming out of the majority of my face holes, but at least Jason Voorhees hasn’t killed me with a speargun.
179 thoughts on “Mental health day”
Doctor_Who
Dorothy, there’s a magical place you can go where you are allowed to play video games on a dinosaur with no pants on. The price of admission is just some Nachitos.
Also, I’m dead set on someone walking into that room and misreading the situation. If it’s going to be Lucy then it would be even funnier if Dorothy were there because Walky would be having a No Pants Party with TWO of his exes. But Dorothy’s presence also unlocks the equally funny Becky option, because then Becky gets to find her girlfriend pantsless with both her rival and a boy. And that’s not even counting the hilarious possibilities if Joyce joins in.
You know what? The more the merrier. No Pants Party at Amber and Dina’s, entire cast!
DailyBrad
They just get joined by every cast member, on at a time, and there’s just a pile of pants at the foot of the dinosaur. Walky is the only one not in his undies.
Slartibeast Button, BIA
And then Margaret Dumont comes and opens the door and a tidal wave of people pours out.
https://tenor.com/view/marx-brothers-a-night-at-the-opera-margaret-dumont-opens-the-door-stateroom-scene-gif-26348200
Doctor_Who
An absolute classic.
Gigafreak
Open the door
Pants on the floor
Party on the beanbag dinosaur
Kyoulkoa
There’s a party on dinosaur and everyone is invited
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Who’s to blame when a party gets out of control?
Decidedly Orthogonal
Had to double check if this was milu’s comment. ? Hopefully they’re already busy drawing. ❤
Decidedly Orthogonal
Oh that’s embarrasing. I meant Yotomoe. ??♂️ Damnit brain, it’s time for a q-tip.
milu
Oofff yeah I’m second-hand embarrassed that you would confuse my poorly executed immature DOA fansmut with Yoto’s way better made immature DOA fansmut. However as it turns out i have drawn something along those lines a few days ago
part 1
part 2
Decidedly Orthogonal
These are excellent. Keep it up milu. Ya got skills.
milu
Listen, i want be polite and say thank you but also i saw your reply in the rss feed and somehow forgot about this post and thought you’d just warmly validated my ridiculous puns thread downpage and i have to admit
i’m so disappointed
Lars
Funny if it’s not the regular cast. Joice walks and finds Arnold, Ryu (or Guile or Bison, whatever, something from Street Fighter) Asma, Other Rachel and Beef without pants.
Only for the one comment
Por que no Los todos?
Ophidiophile
Damn. You read the situation SO well.
Ana Chronistic
speaking for myself, need a Mental Health Year or five
NGPZ
SAME BRUH ??
True Survivor
Oh no. I’m really sorry.
BarerMender
I’ve found an easy solution to that situation: retirement.
Diane
Is that still allowed in this economy?
Slartibeast Button, BIA
Only for boomers like me.
clif
Retirement is like being kid again, except without parents to tell you what you can’t do.
Ryan
But typically with a slowly (or quickly) failing body telling you what you can’t do.
clif
Well, yes, but that takes a while if you’re lucky.
Leorale
Age is wasted on the old.
Ana Chronistic
Youth: Lots of time, lots of energy, no money
Adult: Some energy, some money, no time
Elder: Lots of time, some money, no energy
Jo_cubstar
Feels
ABunchOTrees
Jeez, what would you do with all that time? I suppose you could blast it all away doomscrolling or watching videos, maybe reading books or playing video games, but in the absence of all that? I get bored in at most an hour, and that’s *after* deliberate training.
Decidedly Orthogonal
Year 6 here. Not really feeling like I’ve made any headway. On the other hand, between covid and rising fascism, the world is crashing down around me, so I don’t have as far to go, to stand back up as a decent person again.
Decidedly Orthogonal
I suppose it doesn’t help that police are *still* getting called when I lawfully show up to pick up our kid for access.
NGPZ
That’s just awful bruh, so sorry you have to deal with that ?
Laura
I’m sorry that is happening. 🙁
Agemegos
I’m just starting my twenty-first consecutive mental health year. In five years I get a gold watch.
Agemegos
Sorry, brain fart. I’m halfway through my 22nd year.
clif
So only four years to a gold watch?
I never got my gold watch, but then I never got my flying car either.
Jon
You don’t want flying cars. You’ve seen how people drive in two dimensions – let’s not add a third.
Aura
Eugh, who doesn’t?
Azhrei Vep
I’m good, thanks. Frankly, it sounds exhausting.
RassilonTDavros
I took a Mental Health Year (minus about two months) in the middle of college. I was feeling really refreshed and ready for a new start after it was over.
Unfortunately for my sorry ass, the semester immediately following my Mental Health Year was Spring 2020.
Opus the Poet
Mine was 2003-. I noticed things were not working right after the wreck and my normal outlet of writing poetry about the situation wasn’t working either, that’s when I discovered I had a TBI from when I got killed, which was a fact that I also didn’t find out at the time, both the getting killed and the TBI. I didn’t get my blog up and running until 2008, so no outlets for like 7 years from the wreck until I started doing the blog.
Essex
that was 2016 for me. had a minor breakdown at the end of 2015 and had major panic attacks forcing me to drop out of my studies cue depression and insomnia leading to most of 2016 involving doing very little apart from therapy working on myself and building new friendships through my local board game store, this did eventually lead me to the job i am in now though which i love, so everything works out i guess?
Pergola
Never neglect your mental health!
Yotomoe
o3o I often wish I could sleep all day every day but I guess that’d be akin to death. But I do love sleepin’.
Kyrik Michalowski
As someone with narcolepsy, sleeping is both what I do way too much, and yet is something I constantly want.
Angel
best to take naps while you can. too bad ppl can’t nap during work. well, maybe if you have a ‘cushy’ job where you get an hour break but unless you can fall asleep instantly and wake up ten mins before it ends idk how much it’d help
(I hear japan and other places have a break room with beds but that’s technically a negative thing if you’re literally sleeping at work and not abl e to go hoem lol)
wwwhhattt
At the factory I work at the lunch area has a raised tatami area in the lunch hall for people to sleep on in their breaks
milu
yeah, i frequently take midtime naps when i do seasonal picking jobs, like i’ll rush my lunch just to get that sweet extra couple minutes in
Ana Chronistic
I skip lunch and just nap in my car
(granted, even when we have work, which isn’t often these days, I just eat at my desk whenever)
Rowan
I feel this so hard. Even after a 12 hour sleep, I wish I could sleep more. The ultimate activity for not having to think about your problems/reality.
Leorale
Yeah, I’ve tried this experiment, repeatedly and at length, where I sleep a ton, with practically zero responsibilities, for weeks.
Because, I always feel overwhelmed, so I imagine that a few open-ended weeks of nothingness ought to address that problem / help relieve the overwhelm, right?
Unfortunately, though, it’s a situation where depression totally *thrives*. Depression is never sated, it’ll only get more intense if I give it 24/7 nothingness to eat.
The experiment has been conclusive for me. I always think it’ll help, it seems like it’ll be such a relief… but it’s a trap.
I had to keep setting my alarm, had to keep having some responsibilities that keep me in the world.
If I’ve got those, though, naps are indeed very very nice.
Yumi
I have sleep apnea, which I’m glad to have diagnosed now and therefore be able to use a CPAP for higher quality sleep, but it does make the act of sleeping feel like more of a hassle, even though I enjoy it. Can’t just get comfortable and doze. But then if I do fall asleep without my CPAP, like if I end up napping while reading or something, it doesn’t feel very refreshing (probably because of all the not-breathing).
True Survivor
Oh no. This is really bad. This is how you get behind, followed by sudden overwhelming paralyzing panic, and then you end up doing nothing forever and have to take a semester off and it haunts you for years and years and then we don’t get to see Dorothy anymore and like her even though she reminds me of my most dire flaws.
NGPZ
Well since everyone else is getting deja vu of their college years from this, I might as well share my story for comfort.
I was a physics major at my University for two years until I had to recently quit because of mental health, disability and pandemic circumstances.
Awe well, at least coding games ain’t too bad. It ain’t a rocket, but at least I can eventually build Dorothy a sapphic dream world with what’s essentially Legos for grown-ups.
True Survivor
I am really sorry you went through that – it sounds utterly soul crushing. However, I am glad you where able to find hope and joy in your current path. You know a lot of wise (or at least old and seemingly pretty successful and happy) people I’ve talked to lately keep telling me that the universe is far far to complicated to see how every path pans out in 20 minutes much less in a decade or more, its about taking the path that feels right for you at the moment and being there. My mom says the universe sometimes closes doors so you can find a better one later (that sounds a little mumbo jumbo for me, but it brings her peace to her and myself when I can believe it).
Besides, have you ever heard of Brian May? Dude was on the path of the physicist, but then while prepping for his doctorate turned down what seems to have been a prestigious gap job so he could be keep being in a band only for that band to break up shortly after. He then formed Queen, dropped out of his doctorate half way through to go be a rock star. In 2007 in finished his degree and just recently helped NASA pull off the mission that brought back samples from an asteroid. Point is life leads you all sorts of weird places and strange curve balls doesn’t mean you won’t eventually get where you want and you frankly might be a lot more interesting when you get there. I don’t know if any of this helps, but I hope you have a good day/night/morning?
NGPZ
Awe thanks bruh, Brian sounds awesome. ?
I realize much akin to Dotty, my original goal was based on over-idealized conceptions of a profession over-simplified for grade-schoolers. Not to say that, akin to Dina, I wanna make science my way of life, I just think there’s a better path to it.
I always wanted to make hover-boards, light-sabers, video games, candy machines, sugar, tea and rum. Cool things that make people happy. PHD or not, that what my life about. ?
On that note, I find my 2 years of physics classes come in real handy for a lot of game coding :3 😉
clif
What you’re describing is an engineer, not a scientist. An engineer designs and makes things. A scientist wants to understand the way the way the world works.
NGPZ
Yeah I know, I chose physics with the intention of eventually getting an engineering degree, and because physicists often work alongside engineers in large projects.
But yeah, I ain’t cut out to seriously compete in that field, it turns out. Making games and learning science on my own is a lot less stressful.
milu
re: Brian May’s story (which is pretty cool and thank you) i think it was the self-help writer Mark Manson who takes kind of the reverse of your example and talks about the first drummer for the Beatles who quit after 6 months before they rose to stardom and never became part of the phenomenon and stayed in the shadows playing small bands all his life and how when asked about it, would be like “yeah, that’s wild, but i mean… my life is good. i’m really happy with it.”
milu
disclaimer i don’t remember the details and for all i know the story is apocryphal or simplified beyond the point of being a lie, so i’m not definitely endorsing it. i think the experience it describes is probably true of someone somewhere though and that’s good enough for me =)
Angel
crippling depression/executive dysfunction is a hell of a drug XP
saltchocolate
Downward spiral in progress. I’m worried.
NGPZ
To dissolve a whirl pool or black hole, aim for the center, release a huge burst of energy.
dalniente
Honestly I think that could work metaphorically for a LOT of stuff. I’m adding this to my list of words to live by.
Jacob Crawford
What day of the week is it? I’m pretty sure it’s Saturday, which should by all rights default to being a mental health day unless you decide otherwise
DailyBrad
On one hand, this isn’t a great sign. On the other, yeah, she probably DID need to take at least one day off.
UrsulaDavina
I mean she is aware that she needed to take a mental health day yes that’s on Saturday and also on Sunday but that’s alot more progress many folks would take
Angel
i’m sure something will kick her butt back into gear for better or worse.
Sirksome
I once read a comic by pockets that said taking a “mental health day” as just staying in bed just means you’re depressed. Seems that checks out.
Doctor_Who
Exactly.
The correct procedure for mental health days is video games, horror movies, and the most decadent pizza you can envision.
Anything less is folly.
NGPZ
Horror movies? Not everyone’s cup of tea.
Takin an edible and watching my favorite YouTubers scream their pants off from playing a horror game? Now that’s a great possibility for me.
Doctor_Who
I watch horror whenever I’m feeling lousy. Great for sick days and mental health days.
I think it’s just nice to see that someone in some universe is having a worse day than me. I may be 40% conscious on the couch with mucous coming out of the majority of my face holes, but at least Jason Voorhees hasn’t killed me with a speargun.